Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was carried out in two centres on an outpatient basis using local anaesthesia and intravenous sedation where indicated at one to four weekly intervals until obliteration of all varices had been achieved . |
| 2 | It was n't a conscious move on her part , and yet , once open to his erotically roving tongue , she was helpless to do anything except melt against him with a low moan as the same desire as yesterday curled through her stomach . |
| 3 | Mira , it seems , is walking in the landscape rather than looking at it from a height : |
| 4 | Keep your exercises plain and simple , and you have a better chance of enjoying them , rather than looking on them as a burden . |
| 5 | In writing for others they will learn that writing for a public audience requires more care to be taken with the finished product than writing for oneself as an aid to memory . |
| 6 | But it is easier to show that the Aquitanians ' identity as a people was imposed on them rather than felt by them in Carolingian times . |
| 7 | Eager to keep together , they tended to widen any track they used rather than tramp along it in single file . |
| 8 | Auguste smiled weakly , than laughed at himself for his vanity . |
| 9 | You will probably be surprised at what a different experience it is actually speaking the words rather than running through them in your head . |
| 10 | So horrid as it all is , it 's not that much worse than reading about it in the newspapers . |
| 11 | If we experience the mercy of Jesus , we will naturally share mercy with others , rather than hiding from them as mere observers . |
| 12 | It 's quicker for me to clear up/wash up and so on than to argue with them about doing it . |
| 13 | I did n't feel it was sensible to er , get Monica going through that too many stages , it would seem to me it would better to agree the changes and then we 'd all agreed what the changes are going to be get Monica to do it , rather than go through lots of drafts , drafts with Monica . |
| 14 | According to Lovins , ‘ the equipment more than pays for itself by costing less to maintain ’ . |
| 15 | erm Somebody on this morning 's course said that they quite like answering machines , they use them like note pads , and they ring up people they know have got an answering machine so they can just leave a message , they say it 's quicker than writing a letter , and it 's easier than talking to them for hours , you can just ring them up and leave a message on their answering machine like a sort of note pad , which I had n't thought of , but I suppose it 's rather good , is n't it ! |
| 16 | Telephoning the elderly who live alone needs even more care and tact than talking with them in the course of a visit . |
| 17 | The same increasing central control and rationalization can be seen also in the introduction in 1720 of a regular tariff for the purchase of commissions ; in the 1750s of the custom of numbering regiments rather than referring to them by their colonel 's name ; and in 1792 of a common system of drill , based on that of Prussia , for the whole army . |
| 18 | ‘ But … we ca n't take your bed , ’ objected Isabel faintly , although she wondered why the thought of sleeping in a bed with fitzAlan seemed worse than sleeping with him on a bench . |
| 19 | But it has more than paid for itself in improved factory efficiency , said Bob Pruitt , operations manager of Thatcher Tubes , Florence — part of Courtaulds Packaging . |
| 20 | Surely he deserves better of me than to gaze at him with my policeman 's eyes . |
| 21 | We were only twenty or thirty yards from the line-up , albeit divided from it by a thin blue line of helmeted , truncheon-tipped breakers . |
| 22 | And if given to us as actual temptations , the rather lure of the church , the Reverend Simon Stephen Daedalus SJ , and the lure of the flesh ‘ He closed his eyes , surrendering himself to her body and mind , conscious of nothing in the world but the dark pressure of her softly parting lips ’ . |
| 23 | The resulting explosion had the dead and stunned fish floating on the surface of the water , a procedure I had practised a few times in the Highlands , lobbing a grenade into a salmon pool , a dangerous procedure if caught by someone in authority . |
| 24 | The man was alone ; he looked alternately towards the house and then down , as if searching for something on the dashboard . |
| 25 | She looked into his eyes , as if searching for something in them ; her white face made the dark , heavy-browed eyes look lost and empty , and after a while he could not look into them anymore , and had to smile and look away . |
| 26 | If talking to her on the phone does n't work then I 'll have to reconsider my position . ’ |
| 27 | The MacSharry proposals , if implemented in anything like their current form , would decimate Scottish agriculture because Scottish farms are generally well above the average size of farms in the EC and in the rest of the United Kingdom , for historical but mainly geographical reasons . |
| 28 | With alarming speed a large moth dashed at the candle , repeatedly and frantically , as if attached to it by elastic cord . |
| 29 | In my humble opinion , no person of tender years should be burdened with a constant concentration of learning and training , unless interspersed with lots of leisure-time and outdoor pursuits . |
| 30 | Because of the difficulties of investigating a complaint too long after the event , we will not consider any complaint unless notified to us in writing within that time . |